PrayBar

Prayer times in your Mac's menu bar.

PrayBar keeps your next prayer and the time left up there, where you'll see it, and otherwise stays out of your way.

Download for MacFree · macOS 13 or later · Apple Silicon

Click it for the rest of the day.

Today's five prayers, with the next one marked. The countdown changes once a minute.

Example: Amman on 1 October 2026, Muslim World League, Standard Asr.

No setup required.

Open PrayBar.
Allow your Mac's approximate location.

Your next prayer appears as soon as a location fix arrives. PrayBar then asks once whether to keep its defaults, and offers to start at login:

Prayer times are ready

Using automatic location, Muslim World League, and Standard Asr. You can change these choices in Settings at any time.

Launch at login (recommended) Use defaults View all settings…

Everything else is optional: manual coordinates and time zone, 12 calculation methods, Standard or Hanafi Asr, a clock instead of a countdown, and notifications.

0.0% CPU, nearly all the time.

PrayBar ran for five minutes on a MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro, and its CPU use was read every five seconds. 55 of the 60 readings were 0.0%.

CPU %, one row per minute. The other five readings sit in one column: each comes just after the minute turns, when the countdown changes. That's PrayBar's one timer firing.
12:07	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
12:08	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
12:09	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
12:10	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
12:11	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Average CPU	0.008%
Clock mode	60 of 60 readings at 0.0%
Memory	9.1 MiB, before Settings is first opened
Disk writes	0 bytes
Network	None. The app has no network entitlement.
Timers	One, once a minute. In clock mode, only at the next prayer or midnight.
Sleep	Never prevented. PrayBar pauses while your Mac sleeps.

Measured 1 October 2026 in a fresh process for each mode: MacBook Pro (M1 Pro, 16 GB), macOS 15.6.1, Release build, menu and Settings closed. A title that changes needs a little work once a minute, so it is never literally zero. Method and raw data.

Only what you need.

PrayBar does

Show your next prayer and the minutes until it, or its time.
List today's five prayers.
Notify you when a prayer begins, and remind you 1 to 120 minutes before. Both off until you turn them on.
Use the method and Asr you follow.
Follow your Mac's time zone when you travel.
Start at login, if you ask it to.

PrayBar doesn't

Put an icon in your Dock.
Go online. No account, no server, no tracking.
Track your location in the background. It takes one reading, then stops.
Guess. If it can't find you, it says so.
Play the adhan or break through Focus.
Add a Qibla compass, Hijri calendar or Quran.